“Good to hear from the arbiter of this matter.”
Learned it from Cruz supporters.
“Since I’m sure you weren’t for the whole thinf, you are saying you are aligning yourself with code pink”
Actually, as I’ve said, I was completely for it back then. I totally got on the bandwagon and even taunted and trolled liberals online, saying they were “collecting checks from Uncle Saddam”. Even laughed off my parents wariness of it, who were seeing another Vietnam.
I embarrassingly had visions of the Gulf War. Short, few causalities, lots of awesome footage, and a victory parade with Iraq becoming a free nation. Not to mention the piles of nukes and poison gas that would be found to shove in the face of the doubters.
Now fast-forward into the reality of how it turned out. While I thought that the surge would finally turn it around, it was clear that it was a trillion-dollar mess that was killing American soldiers for no apparent end. We certainly didnt find a pile of WMDs that would have warranted anything more than airstrikes or a few missions by special forces.
Yeah, out of “pride” I didn’t want to admit that it was a mistake, but I came to my own conclusion (certainly not because of Code Pink) that we needed to cut our loses and get out.
Only a moron at this point (10+ years later) still sees it as a good move. Well ISIS seems to love the big chunk of Iraq they now control though.
I was even against Gulf War 1. When Kuwait was invaded I remembered that the US Navy had asked Kuwait for permission to preposition supplies in Kuwait in case things got hot with Iran and Kuwait refused us. We had to bring in huge barges instead. Screw them I thought at the time and I still think that. However once the fighting began I was supportive of the troops and could not believe Powell stop General Swadscof from utterly destroying Saddams’ Red Guard troops on the highway of death. Our leaders are fools.